ENCOURAGEMENT TO YOUNG STUDENTS. 349 
misery as the natural wages of those who devote their 
vigils to the development of the human mind! Let us 
not then forget to point out the exceptions whenever they 
present themselves. If we wish that youth should give 
itself up with ardour to intellectual labours, let us show 
them that the glory attached to great discoveries allies 
itself, sometimes at least, with some degree of tranquillity 
and happiness. Let us even withdraw, if it be possible, 
from the history of science so many pages which tarnish 
its glory. Let us try to persuade ourselves that in the 
dungeons of the Inquisitors, a friendly voice had caused 
Galileo to hear some of the delightful expressions which 
posterity has kept sacred for his memory; that behind 
the thick walls of the Bastille, Fréret might yet have 
learned from the world of science, the glorious rank 
which it had reserved for him among the men of erudi- 
tion whom France honours ; that before going to die in 
an hospital, Borelli had found sometimes in the city of 
Rome a shelter against the inclemency of the atmosphere, 
and a little straw on which to lay his head; and lastly, 
that the great Kepler had not experienced the sufferings 
of hunger. 
